Strategos: Born In The Borderlands Av Gordon Doherty

<p><strong>''A great story ... Doherty¿s writing is evocative, providing richly detailed scenes of life in medieval Byzantium'' <em>World History Encyclopedia</em></strong></p><h2>Tragedy broke him. Revenge will remake him.</h2><p>AD 1046. The Byzantine Empire teeters on the brink of full-blown war with the mighty Seljuk Sultanate. The two great powers vie to control Anatolia ¿ a land of strife, riven with bloodshed and doubt.</p><p>Young Apion¿s life is shattered one night when his family is murdered during a brutal Seljuk raid. Left for dead in his burning home, then rescued but only to be sold into slavery, it seems that he is destined for a cruel life. Until a benevolent Seljuk farmer, Mansur, offers him a second chance at happiness.</p><p>Yet despite his new life of pastoral harmony on Mansur¿s border farm, a hunger for revenge burns in Apion¿s soul. Then a fateful encounter draws him down a dark path that leads him right into the heart of a conflict that will echo through the age